Raj Arumugam

Taking Yourself Too Seriously - Poem by Raj Arumugam

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OK, grantedyou got to take yourself seriouslyor no one will but take yourself too seriouslyand you’re like a cracking statue about to crumble

there’s too much reallyof people running aroundtaking themselves too seriouslypushing themselves forwardputting their faces to the forefrontalmost pushing it against other people’s arsesacademic, analytical, intellectual, so so deep you’d think they’d have sex in public next: one moment it’s the ‘me’ in crisisand then next they’re an Old Testament Prophetwith thunder, lightningand explosives(presumably cos they don’t use expletives): or they are World Teachersoh such Avengers of Justiceeach a Captain Planet or Guardian of the Universe(you’d think – hey, I wonder whatthese Heaven Beings will do if they were in power) with faces borrowed from theatrical masks Tragic Noh and ancient Greek Pathology and they bring in such Moralsyou’d think they are the paragons of Virtue

so smile a bit, wiggle your arses a bitand dropp that cumbersome gravity, folks: you take yourself so seriouslyyou’re about to go berserk